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In 1758 Diderot's friend the Marquis de Croismare became interested in the cause c l bre of a nun who was appealing to be allowed to leave a Paris convent. Less than a year later, in an affectionate attempt to trick his friend, Diderot created this masterpiece - a fictitious... Read Full Overview

Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into the effects of forced vocations... Read Full Overview

Memoirs of a Nun , which began as a joke and grew into a masterpiece, was one of the loudest salvos fired in the continuing battles between the clergy and the intelligentsia which defined so much of eighteenth-century French history. Diderot's story of a novice held in a convent... Read Full Overview

Book Excerpt: ute;ration, si l'?diteur ne nous e?t d?tromp?s.? la suite du volume, il publie l'extrait d'une correspondance qui nous d?couvre qu'une plaisanterie de M. Grimm a ?t? l'origine du roman de Diderot.Il est bien ?trange que l'?diteur n'ait pas senti qu'une plaisanterie,... Read Full Overview

Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into the effects of forced vocations... Read Full Overview

Publi? sans nom d'auteur, interdit il y a quelques ann?es au cin?ma, La Religieuse fait toujours scandale ; or, ce livre, disait Montherlant, ? est ? peine licencieux et n'est pas du tout frivole mais au contraire tr?s grave ?. Inspir? par une histoire v?cue, Diderot imagine... Read Full Overview

A leading figure of the Enlightenment, Denis Diderot fearlessly provoked the wrath of the French establishment through his writings. Aristocratic privilege, religious authority and obscurantism, colonialism, militarism, European assumptions of moral authority, the subordinate... Read Full Overview

La Religiosa es una excelente obra de el autor de la Enciclopedia, expresionista e introspectiva. En la misma, Denis Diderot hace una cr tica rotunda de la coercitividad de las instituciones religiosas: el mundo cerrado de los conventos degenera en inutilidad social, resentimiento... Read Full Overview

La r ponse de M. le marquis de Croismare, s'il m'en fait une, me fournira les premi res lignes de ce r cit. Avant que de lui crire, j'ai voulu le conna tre. C'est un homme du monde, il s'est illustr au service; il est g , il a t mari ; il a une fille et deux fils qu'il aime... Read Full Overview

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections
such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact,
or were introduced by the scanning process. We... Read Full Overview